The Great Model Railway Challenge
Overview
Contest as railway modellers compete to create miniature masterpieces against the clock.
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Seasons
Season 1 (2018)
No overview available.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Classic Movies
2018-10-05In heat one, three teams offer their interpretations of James Bond, Jurassic Park, WWII flick The Longest Day, and a tour through Ealing Studios. But one team wilfully breaks the rules of the competition on day one.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: British TV
2018-10-12Judges tune in to model layouts inspired by beloved TV shows.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: Globetrotting
2018-10-19Teams create miniatures inspired by locations of the world.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: Fire and Ice
2018-10-26The Diesel Dynamos, The Fawley Flyers and The Railway Children arrive at Fawley Hill in Henley-on-Thames, and are tasked with building railway layouts on the creatively taxing theme of `fire and ice'.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: Waterworld
2018-11-02The theme for the final heat is layouts based on water.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 6: Grand Finale
2018-11-09The final theme for the modellers is A Journey Through Time.
Runtime: 60 minSeason 2 (2019)
No overview available.
8 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Heat 1: The Restless Earth
2019-09-13Three teams compete to create a deluge of volcanoes, earthquakes and other tiny natural disasters in only three days.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Heat 2: Best Sellers
2019-09-20Three teams create best sellers based on the books of Lawrence of Arabia, HG Wells and Agatha Christie, featuring Roman ruins, alien motherships and the Orient Express.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: Heat 3: The Best of British
2019-09-27Three teams create a bucolic landscape of crochet trees, massive replicas of Kings Cross and St Pancras station, and a fiendishly technical haggis delivery system.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: Heat 4: Uncharted Territory
2019-10-04Three teams take a magical mystery train tour through the jungle, a historic flood and the centre of the Earth.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: Heat 5: The Sky's the Limit
2019-10-05Three teams fight for a place in the final with their sci-fi displays incorporating miniature aerial acrobatics, towering peaks and space travel.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 6: Semi-Final 1: Myths, Monsters, Legends and Fables
2019-10-12Only two can make it to the last stretch, and with a tough challenge on a fabulous fantasy theme to overcome, any team could find themselves on the next train home.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 7: Semi-Final 2: Blockbusters
2019-10-19The semi-finalists offer up blockbuster layouts based on Harry Potter, Jurassic Park and James Bond. Plus there is a mysterious operational challenge to overcome.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 8: Grand Final: Surprise Surprise
2019-10-26Four finalists have three days to create miniature railway layouts that amaze, confound and delight. But who will take the prize?
Runtime: 60 min
